Dal sistema al diastema. Il postumanesimo secondo Cary Wolfe

This article examines American philosopher Cary Wolfe’s considerations on the need to redefine the notion of ‘posthuman’. The analysis is focused on the reflection over the difference between humanitas and animalitas and, in the general theoretical framework, its epistemological effects related to the study of life. Moving from some paradigmatic positions emerged in the recent American debate concerning the possibility of delineating a political perspective for the posthuman, the author points out how the reformulation of the term ‘posthuman’ in ‘posthumanism’ may represent an alternative way to the opposition between normative essentialism and aporetical critic.